Marko Nikezić ( Serbian: Марко Никезић; 13 June 1921 – 6 January 1991) was a Serbian politician. He was a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia and Chairman of the League of Communists of Serbia. He was dismissed in 1972 under the charge of being " anarcho-liberal".

Biography

Nikezić was born in Belgrade. He studied at the Technical Faculty at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...

. He was a member of the Yugoslav Partisan army from 1941, during

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. After the war, he served as Yugoslav ambassador to Egypt, Czechoslovakia and the United States of America. From 1965 to 1968 he was a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia. In 1968 he became the Chairman of the League of Communists of Serbia. In 1972 he was dismissed from the office under the charge of being too "liberal" and "anarcho-liberal", alongside

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and other Serbian high-officials. This event is known in Serbian history as the 'Purge of liberals'. He died in Belgrade in 1991.

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